Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2004 Men's Olympic Football Tournament
Tournament details
Host countryGreece
Dates11–28 August
Teams16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Argentina (1st title)
Runners-up Paraguay
Third place Italy
Fourth place Iraq
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored101 (3.16 per match)
Attendance401,415 (12,544 per match)
Top scorer(s)Argentina Carlos Tevez
(8 goals)
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The men's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in Athens and four other cities in Greece from 11 to 28 August. The tournament featured 16 men's national teams from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, in which each team would play each of the others once. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the final at Athens' Olympic Stadium on 28 August 2004.[1]

Qualification

The following 16 teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics football tournament.

Means of qualification Berths Qualified
Host nation 1  Greece
2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship 3  Italy (winner)
 Serbia and Montenegro (runner-up)
Portugal Portugal (third-place)
AFC Preliminary Competition 3  Iraq
 Japan
 South Korea
CAF Preliminary Competition 4  Ghana
 Mali
 Morocco
 Tunisia
CONCACAF Preliminary Competition 2  Mexico (winner)
 Costa Rica (runner-up)
2004 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament 2  Argentina (winner)
 Paraguay (runner-up)
OFC Preliminary Competition 1  Australia
Total 16

Match officials

North and Central America
South America

Seeding

The draw for the tournament took place on 9 June 2004. Argentina, Greece, Japan and Morocco were seeded for the draw and placed into groups A–D, respectively. The remaining teams were drawn from four pots with teams from the same region kept apart.

Pot 1: Host, Top-Seeded teams from Africa, Americas and Asia Pot 2: Non-top seeded teams from Asia and Oceania Pot 3: Non-top seeded teams from Americas Pot 4: Non-top seeded teams from Africa Pot 5: Non-top seeded teams from Europe

Group stage

  • Teams highlighted in green went through to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mali 3 1 2 0 5 3 +2 5 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  South Korea 3 1 2 0 6 5 +1 5
3  Mexico 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
4  Greece 3 0 1 2 4 7 −3 1
Source: [citation needed]
South Korea 2–2 Greece
Kim Dong-jin 43'
Vyntra 64' (o.g.)		 Report Taralidis 78'
Papadopoulos 82' (pen.)
Mali 0–0 Mexico
Report
South Korea 1–0 Mexico
Kim Jung-woo 16' Report
Attendance: 14,026
Greece 0–2 Mali
Report Berthe 2'
N'Diaye 45'
Attendance: 17,123
Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)
South Korea 3–3 Mali
Cho Jae-jin 57', 59'
Tamboura 64' (o.g.)		 Report N'Diaye 7', 24', 55'
Greece 2–3 Mexico
Taralidis 82' (pen.)
Stoltidis 90+3'		 Report Márquez 47'
Bravo 70', 86'
Attendance: 21,597
Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Paraguay 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Italy 3 1 1 1 5 5 0 4
3  Ghana 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
4  Japan 3 1 0 2 6 7 −1 3
Source: [citation needed]
Paraguay 4–3 Japan
Giménez 5'
Cardozo 26', 37'
Torres 62'		 Report Ono 22' (pen.), 53' (pen.)
Ōkubo 81'
Ghana 2–2 Italy
Pappoe 36'
Appiah 45+1'		 Report Pinzi 49'
Gilardino 83'
Paraguay 1–2 Ghana
Gamarra 76' Report Tiero 81'
Appiah 84'
Japan 2–3 Italy
Abe 21'
Takamatsu 90+1'		 Report De Rossi 3'
Gilardino 8', 36'
Paraguay 1–0 Italy
Bareiro 14' Report
Attendance: 24,160
Japan 1–0 Ghana
Ōkubo 37' Report
Attendance: 6,813

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Argentina 3 3 0 0 9 0 +9 9 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Australia 3 1 1 1 6 3 +3 4
3  Tunisia 3 1 1 1 4 5 −1 4
4  Serbia and Montenegro 3 0 0 3 3 14 −11 0
Source: [citation needed]
Tunisia 1–1 Australia
Zitouni 69' Report Aloisi 45'
Attendance: 15,757
Argentina 6–0 Serbia and Montenegro
Delgado 11'
C. González 17'
Tevez 42', 43'
Heinze 74'
Rosales 77'		 Report
Serbia and Montenegro 1–5 Australia
Radonjić 72' Report Cahill 11'
Aloisi 45+1', 57'
Elrich 60', 86'
Argentina 2–0 Tunisia
Tevez 39'
Saviola 72'		 Report
Argentina 1–0 Australia
D'Alessandro 9' Report
Serbia and Montenegro 2–3 Tunisia
Krasić 70'
Vukčević 87'		 Report Clayton 41'
Jedidi 83' (pen.)
Zitouni 89'
Attendance: 7,214
Referee: Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iraq 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6 Qualified for the quarterfinals
2  Costa Rica 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
3  Morocco 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
4  Portugal 3 1 0 2 6 9 −3 3
Source: [citation needed]
Costa Rica 0–0 Morocco
Report
Iraq 4–2Portugal Portugal
E. Mohammed 16'
H. Mohammed 29'
Mahmoud 56'
Sadir 90+3'		 Report Haidar 13' (o.g.)
Bosingwa 45'
Attendance: 5,689
Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)
Costa Rica 0–2 Iraq
Report H. Mohammed 67'
Karim 72'
Attendance: 12,150
Referee: Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti)
Morocco 1–2Portugal Portugal
Bouden 85' Report C. Ronaldo 40'
R. Costa 73'
Morocco 2–1 Iraq
Bouden 69' (pen.)
Aqqal 77'		 Report Sadir 63'
Costa Rica 4–2Portugal Portugal
Villalobos 50'
Meira 68' (o.g.)
Saborío 71'
Brenes 90+1'		 Report Almeida 29'
Ribeiro 54'
Attendance: 11,218
Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsGold medal match
 
          
 
21 August – Athens Karaiskakis
 
 
 Mali0
 
24 August – Athens Karaiskakis
 
 Italy1
 
 Italy0
 
21 August – Patras
 
 Argentina3
 
 Argentina4
 
28 August – Athens Olympic
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 Argentina1
 
21 August – Heraklion
 
 Paraguay0
 
 Iraq1
 
24 August – Thessaloniki
 
 Australia0
 
 Iraq1
 
21 August – Thessaloniki
 
 Paraguay3 Bronze medal match
 
 Paraguay3
 
27 August – Thessaloniki
 
 South Korea2
 
 Italy1
 
 
 Iraq0
 

Quarter-finals

Mali 0–1 (a.e.t.) Italy
Report Bovo 116'
Attendance: 27,543
Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)
Iraq 1–0 Australia
E. Mohammed 64' Report
Attendance: 10,023
Argentina 4–0 Costa Rica
Delgado 24'
Tevez 43', 82', 83'		 Report
Paraguay 3–2 South Korea
Bareiro 19', 71'
Cardozo 61'		 Report Lee Chun-soo 74', 79' (pen.)

Semi-finals

Italy 0–3 Argentina
Report Tevez 16'
Lucho González 69'
M. González 84'
Attendance: 30,910
Iraq 1–3 Paraguay
Farhan 83' Report Cardozo 17', 34'
Bareiro 68'

Bronze medal match

Italy 1–0 Iraq
Gilardino 8' Report

Gold medal match

Argentina 1–0 Paraguay
Tevez 18' Report
Olympic Stadium, Marousi
Attendance: 41,116

Source for cards:[2]

Team details
Argentina
Paraguay
GK 18 Germán Lux
DF 4 Fabricio Coloccini
DF 2 Roberto Ayala (c)
DF 6 Gabriel Heinze
MF 16 Luis O. González
MF 5 Javier Mascherano
MF 11 Kily González Yellow card 48'
MF 15 Andrés D'Alessandro
MF 12 Mauro Rosales
FW 10 Carlos Tevez
FW 8 César Delgado downward-facing red arrow 76'
Substitutes:
DF 14 Clemente Rodríguez upward-facing green arrow 76'
Manager:
Argentina Marcelo Bielsa
GK 18 Diego Barreto
DF 2 Emilio Martínez Red card 66'
DF 3 Julio Manzur Yellow card 37'
DF 4 Carlos Gamarra (c) Yellow card 30'
DF 6 Celso Esquivel Yellow card 45' downward-facing red arrow 76'
MF 8 Edgar Barreto downward-facing red arrow 72'
MF 11 Aureliano Torres Yellow card 72'
MF 10 Diego Figueredo Yellow card 65'
MF 13 Julio Enciso downward-facing red arrow 63'
FW 7 Pablo Giménez
FW 9 Fredy Bareiro
Substitutes:
MF 16 Osvaldo Díaz upward-facing green arrow 63'
FW 15 Ernesto Cristaldo upward-facing green arrow 72'
FW 14 Julio V. González upward-facing green arrow 76' Yellow card 87'
Manager:
Paraguay Carlos Jara Saguier

Final ranking

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Argentina (ARG) 6 6 0 0 17 0 +17 18
2  Paraguay (PAR) 6 4 0 2 12 9 +3 12
3  Italy (ITA) 6 3 1 2 7 8 −1 10
4  Iraq (IRQ) 6 3 0 3 9 8 +1 9
5  Mali (MLI) 4 1 2 1 5 4 +1 5
6  South Korea (KOR) 4 1 2 1 8 8 0 5
7  Australia (AUS) 4 1 1 2 6 4 +2 4
8  Costa Rica (CRC) 4 1 1 2 4 8 −4 4
9  Ghana (GHA) 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
10  Morocco (MAR) 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
11  Mexico (MEX) 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
12  Tunisia (TUN) 3 1 1 1 4 5 −1 4
13  Japan (JPN) 3 1 0 2 6 7 −1 3
14  Portugal (POR) 3 1 0 2 6 9 −3 3
15  Greece (GRE) 3 0 1 2 4 7 −3 1
16  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 3 0 0 3 3 14 −11 0
Source: [citation needed]

Statistics

Goalscorers

With eight goals, Carlos Tevez of Argentina is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 101 goals were scored by 65 different players, with four of them credited as own goals.

Carlos Tevez, key player and top scorer (8 goals)
8 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

References

  1. ^ "Football at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Torneo Olímpico de Fútbol • 28 Aug 2004 • 04:00 • Olympic Stadium" (in Spanish). FIFA. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

External links

  • Olympic Football Tournaments Athens 2004 – Men, FIFA.com
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